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What’s the point or role of education?

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Pass on core values or prepare for work

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Functionalist role on education

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*consensus theory *
Ain’t help explain to fit into society
Pass core values
Transfer skills

Durkheim - ‘society in miniature’

parsons - bridge between family and wider society
meritocratic rise to top

David’s and Moore - ‘principle of stratification’ inequality can motivate people for some jobs

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Neoliberalism role on education

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Major influences
State should not indicate how individuals dispose of property, a free market

Allow competition

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New right role on education

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Believe most func views
Shouldn’t control education, marketise it - bring diverse and choice

Think school has a one size fits all, poor results

This idea can ignore learning and aim for more results

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Marxist point of view on education

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Althussers - two apparatus
.By force, police to keep system in place
.education pushes ideas it normal
.Control people’s ideas

Bowles and Gintis
Education is a myth making machine that promotes a myth of mertocracy

POV -
Produce class inequality
While making some fear uni debt

Neg -
Deterministic, not moulded
Education can harm bourgeoisie

lad counter - culture
Don’t care for education

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Feminist view on education

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They agree with Marx and func, that it transmits views onto pupils

heaton and lawson
Hidden curriculum,

lib
Girls better in school
With preferences to subjects
But higher expectations for boys, more recommend for higher education

rad
Oppresses women
Sexual harassment not taken seriously

not all girls have the same experience, and many girls who do well in school will still be beaten by a man in jobs. Females time off work for kids normalised

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Postmodernist view on education

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It doesn’t matter as it will change soon anyway :)

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Education policy - time line

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1870-2023
1944
1965
1976
1988

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1944, what’s the tripartite system?

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Leaving age at 15, free
The 11+ exam assigning you to:

Grammar school - traditional, middle class

Secondary modern - for failures, basics

Technical - practical learning

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1965, comprehensive system

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equal opportunities

-allows everyone to
-lower ability

-still sort, sets
-working class still failing

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What do func think of comprehensive?

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Meritocracy, social roles

Social change with class altogether

Longer to develop

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What do Marx think of comprehensive?

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Reproduces equality

Unequal achievement

Looks like the individual when it’s the system

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1988, reformed under new right ideals

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Marketisation of school

Consumer choice and competition subsequently government continue this, emphasis on increasing standards.

More vocational courses
A national curriculum
More testing

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Miriam David’s opinion of school marketisation

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Parentocracy ( rule of parents)

Consumers have power

Raise in standards.

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Critics of marketisation of school

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Class inequality

Barlett - won’t take bad student more selective

Cream skimming - won’t take lower class kids

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What’s slit-stiffing

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Avoid talking pupils who are more likely to get poorer results

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The 4 policy of marketisation of school

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League tables
National curriculum
Ofsted
Rule of parents

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1976, vocational education

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Skills needed to work

Youth training schemes
NVQ- practical qualifications
The new deal, if on benefits had to attend courses

19
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Criticism of vocational capital

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Sims for good work discipline no skills

Cheap labour

Arnt regarded as highly as academic qualifications

To force women into traditional jobs

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1997-2010, new labour and third way ideas

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Continued marketisation of schools, allowed schools to specialise in subjects

Made education more privatised contracts for improving reading or writing

21
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What’s are the interventionist policies

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Reducing class sizes
Introduced a literacy hour
Trying to increase number to uni

22
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What vocational ideas did new labour add?

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A-levels

23
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What policies aimed to promote gender equality

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Girls
Equal entitlement to all pupils - increase in girls achievement

Taking initiatives to promote subjects to girls they normally wouldn’t take

Boys
Grants to primary schools to hold extra writing classes for boys to help SATs

Other extra programs to promote improvement in boys

24
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What new labour polices aimed to reduce class inequality

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Sure start - two years free childcare and early education for 3-4 year olds

education maintenance allowance- 30 per week for children who stayed after 16, only for very poor families

Education action zones - tracks inequality by area

free school meals

academic program - for schools In disadvantaged areas, sponsors to help improve them

25
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Critics of labours attempt to reduce class inequality

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benn - new labour paradox

They increase uni fees

Creating a barrier for working class families

26
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Whata the Privatisation of education

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The transfer of public assets such as schools to private companies

27
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What did ball say about the profit companies make from it?

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Companies involved in large scale school building expect to make 10x the profit

28
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What’s blurring the public and private line?

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Senior officials leave the public sectors to be in a private school

29
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Privatisation and the globalisations of education policy’s

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Foreign private companies
Work overseas
Nations now unimportant in policy marketing

Buckingham - leading educational software if all big global companies

30
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How is school colonised

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Private companies indirectly involved
Often limited

31
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How is education a commodity?

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ball education is become more for profit

Public services to capitalist

Marxist say how privatisation and competition drive up standards is a myth

32
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What is private schools and public schools?

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Private school.
Not financed by the state, fees paid by parents

Public schools
Most prestigious private schools
Have independence to operate outside the goverment

33
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Positive of private schools

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Best academic success
Smaller classes
Parental interest
Better salary for teachers
Better resources
Extra curriculum activities

34
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Negatives of private schools

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Morally and ethically wrong for kids to have better chances

Mass elite jobs to private school kids

Class status replicated

35
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The old boys network

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Born into wealthy family -> go to public school-> go to good uni -> marry another highly paid influencer
-> have kids and repeat

36
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Globalisation, effect on education

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Competition abroad
Different jobs

37
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In Globalisation What policy’s are there?

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Ict companies - challenges poor or traditional schools

Exam boards

Culture

Migration

Relevance or national curriculum

POSTMODERNIST THEORY

38
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Relationship with teachers and process in schools what does it do?

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Perform better due to process and organisation

39
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What aspects do relationships do with a teacher?

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Quality of a team
Schools ethics
Team attitude
Pupils interaction

Can effect identity , discipline, curriculum, choice and experiences

40
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The interactionist perspective

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Interpret situation and develop meanings of them

Forming identity’s that influence how they behave and progress they make

41
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Rutters opinion

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A good school makes a large difference

Teacher told that some students will spurt and do better

47% of the children had indeed made significant process

42
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What do teachers do?

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Label students, they define students if behaviour not results

Labelled on class

43
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What effects can teachers have when placing a label?

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Self fulling prophecy

Halo effects - stereotyped in a bad way due to earlier impressions

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